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Purdue Pharma, which some blame for helping spark the opioid crisis, is privately owned by some members of the Sackler family, whose name has become a controversial flashpoint in the opioid epidemic.
The gallery opened under the Sackler name after a redesign, by architect Zaha Hadid, in 2013. The Dr. Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation donated £5.5 million ($7.5 million) to the project ...
On the morning of July 5, 1975, a deeply troubled Robert Mortimer Sackler somehow made his way from his apartment on East 64th Street to his mother’s home on East 86th Street.
Their Purdue Pharma, under fire for its role in the opioid crisis, might be bankrupt — but the 40 members of the Sackler family aren’t. Newsletters Amazon Prime Day Share a News Tip.
Surprising Fact. Not all Sackler family donations to museums have links to OxyContin. After Arthur Sackler, the eldest of the three Sackler brothers, died in 1987, his descendants sold his stake ...
Sackler’s cousin, Mortimer D.A. Sackler, unloaded a sprawling five-story Beaux Arts-style townhouse off New York’s Fifth Avenue for $38 million in 2020, as Page Six reported.
Members of the Sackler family withdrew more than $10 billion from Purdue Pharma and put the money in family trusts and holding companies as pressure intensified over the nation’s opioid epidemic ...
During hours-long testimony in a Purdue Pharma federal bankruptcy proceeding on Wednesday, former company president Richard Sackler said he believes his family and the OxyContin manufacturer bear ...
The Smithsonian Institution will not remove the Sackler name from its Asian art museum, despite a senator’s letter requesting that it do so. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) requested on June 19 that ...
The Sackler name, displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in January 2019, has been removed from seven of the museum’s exhibition spaces amid outrage over the family’s prior ownership of ...
The Sackler family will now relinquish control of Purdue Pharma and cease sale of opioids in the U.S. as part of a $7.4 billion settlement.
Where Is Richard Sackler from Netflix's ‘Painkiller’ now? All About his net worth, settlement, and where he lives. The series looks at America's opioid crisis.